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For an article published in Science, it's remarkable how little follow-up I see to this 2012 article after searching Google and Google Scholar for a while. I wo

For an article published in Science, it's remarkable how little follow-up I see to this 2012 article after searching Google and Google Scholar for a while. I wonder what other researchers on the early origins of humankind think about this. On my part, as an amateur about these issues, it does seem plausible that human beings have a lot of capacity for peaceful cooperation, which could readily have been selected for through many forgotten events of human prehistory.

benbreen 12y ago
It's getting attention in the history community - I found out about it because it was prominently cited in this (unfortunately paywalled) article that just came out in the American Historical Review, the leading history journal. http://ahr.oxfordjournals.org/content/119/5/1529.extract http://ahr.oxfordjournals.org/content/119/5/1529.extract